New Words for 2006
For those who feel the need to improve their vocabulary
TESTICULATINGWaving your arms around and talking bollocks.
BLAMESTORMINGSitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGERA manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
ASSMOSISThe process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAYThe experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGINGWhen someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube
farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on
(This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
SITCOMsSingle Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn in

(image)[1]Top ten facts about Chuck Norris:Guns
don't kill people. Chuck Norris kills People. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list
of animals Chuck Norris allows to live. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He
waits. The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain. There is no chin
under Chuck Norris' Beard. There is only another fist. Chuck Norris has
two speeds. Walk, and Kill. The leading causes of death in the United
States are: 1. Heart Disease 2. Chuck Norris 3. Cancer Chuck Norris
drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls. Chuck Norris is my
Homeboy. Chuck Norris doesn't go hunting.... CHUCK NORRIS GOES KILLING.Smile at http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/daily/24827/
An unusual HCV strain opens the pathogen's entire life cycle to scrutiny.
The hepatitis C virus is a single-stranded,
positive-sense, RNA virus that is roughly 50nm in size. The discovery
of a highly virulent strain opened the door to more sophisticated study.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been difficult to
study since its discovery in 1989; its unculturable status left
researchers with a narrow view of the viral life cycle. But the
discovery a few years ago of a highly infectious HCV strain (JFH-1) by
Takaji Wakita's lab, then at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of
Neuroscience, raised the possibility of developing a robust cell
culture system. JFH-1 was a huge find, says Frank Chisari, from Scripps
Research Institute, and Wakita gladly shared it.
The race to develop an efficient cell culture
system with JFH-1 was a short one, and in the Hot Papers featured here,
several lab

J. Mater. Chem., 2006, 16, 3635-3639 DOI: 10.1039/b607466a
Flying-seed-like liquid crystalsKazuchika Ohta, Tomoyuki Shibuya and Masahiro Ando
Abstract:In 1911, Vorlrnder reported liquid-crystalline properties of unique (image)flying-seed-like(image) alkali metal carboxylates. They are neither (image)rod-like(image) nor (image)disk-like(image). Moreover, they have neither a rigid core nor flexible long chains. The molecular shapes are totally different from about 93(image)000
general liquid crystalline compounds. These flying-seed-like liquid
crystals have been forgotten for about 100 years. We revealed and
established for the first time from precise microscopic observations
and temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction studies that sodium
diphenylacetate exhibits a hexagonal columnar mesophase, and that
potassium diethylacetate and potassium dimethylacetate exhibit a
smectic A mesophase. These (image)old and new(image) flying-seed-like liquid crystals will become a novel fi

仅供参考:老外辨别中国人的方法 1. You look like you are 18. (no)
2. You like to eat chicken feet. (yes)
3. You suck on fish heads and fish fins. (yes)
4. You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging on your rear view mirror. (yes, when I had a car)
5. You sing karaoke. (yes)
6. Your house is covered with tile. (yes, if I had my own house)
7. Your kitchen is covered by a sticky film of grease. (yes)
8. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil. (no)
9. You leave the plastic covers on your remote control. (no)
10. You've never kissed your mom or dad. (no, when I was a baby)
11. You've never hugged your mom or dad. (no, when I was a baby)
12. You"ve worn glasses since you were in fifth grade. (yes)
13. Your hair sticks up when you wake up. (yes)
14. You"ll haggle over something that is not negotiable. (no)
15. You love to use coupons. (why not?)

http://spectrum.ieee.org/sep06/4382IEEE Spectrum online
What's Up, Postdoc?
How to climb the academic ladder
By Prachi Patel-Predd
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Academic Heights: Richard J. Radke had to endure a bruising
process to get himself onto the first rung of
the tenure-track ladder.
Late one night, Richard J. Radke was at his desk,
putting together applications for faculty jobs. Nearing
the completion of his Ph.D., he was hoping to embark on
an academic career. A senior professor he knew well took
Radke aside and said, “I hate to tell you this, but it’s
going to be brutal,” he recalls. Radke, now an assistant
professor in electrical, computer, and systems
engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in